More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a series of posts I’m publishing that includes elevator pitches from 10 of the companies I liked.
ScriptPad
ScriptPad is a Colorado company targeting small physician practices with a software app for mobile phones designed to simplify the way in which physicians work with pharmacists to prescribe drugs for their patients. Its app is available at the app store; a version for Android phones is coming soon. “Your voice of feedback will be heard and we will create applications that you want to use instead of being forced to use,” its website says, hearteningly.
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The company was launched in 2010 developing software applications for small physician practices. In mid-2010, ScriptPad was accepted into the TechStars startup accelerator, a Boulder, Colorado-based investor that provides seed funding. In December of 2010 it closed a small seed round of financing, and is considering pursuing a Series A sometime in 2012. This year it began enrolling physicians in a private beta testing program.
“A patient goes into the clinic and the physician pulls up their information and patients are alerted,” said Liam David-Mead, a co-founder and chief technology officer. “We allow the physician to save favorite drugs, a typical family physician will have a list of 25-30 of its go-to drugs for 80 percent of the time.”
Read about the other nine startups: CareSpeak Communications, HealthTap, EnHatch, Meddik, Force Therapeutics, Above Stress, OrganizedWisdom, Ayogo and Beyond Lucid Technologies.
